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Blackpool

Coastal town in Lancashire, England

Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately 27 miles (43 km) north of Liverpool and 14 miles (23 km) west of Preston. It is the main settlement in the borough of the same name. The population of Blackpool at the 2021 census was 141,000, a decrease of 1,100 in ten years.

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  • 1086Some of the earliest villages on the Fylde, which were later to become part of Blackpool town, were named in the Domesday Book.
  • 15th centuryThe area was just called Pul, and a 1532 map calls the area "the pole howsys alias the north howsys".
  • 1602Entries in Bispham Parish Church baptismal register include both Poole and for the first time blackpoole.
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Blackpool Central railway station
Disused railway station in Blackpool, Lancashire
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Empress Ballroom
Venue in Blackpool England (opened 1896)
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Opera House Theatre, Blackpool
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